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Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge a dog by its breed. After conducting owner surveys for 18,385 dogs and sequencing the genomes of 2,155 dogs, a group of researchers reported a...

MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. The Texas grandmother who made the perfect pumpkin pie might still...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As the guests sat down for a banquet dinner last summer at the grand colonial-era home of Sri Lanka’s president, the small talk soon turned gravely serious. Addressing...

The heavy rains that caused catastrophic flooding in South Africa in mid-April were made twice as likely to occur by climate change, scientists said Friday. An analysis of the flooding, which...

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was shot dead by Israeli troops Wednesday as she covered a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, an AFP photographer reported. Al Jazeera and...

These are rocky times for most investments. But it has been a wonderful stretch for the dollar. You may not have noticed if you haven’t traveled abroad and exchanged dollars for euros, yen or...

A few years ago, my best friend texted me to confess that she was worried about her texting. Her hands and fingers ached throughout the day, and the pain worsened when she used her smartphone. Could...

Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according to a study published in Nature on Thursday. The shuffling of viruses...

Sri Lanka’s strongman president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has declared a state of emergency for the second time in just more than a month as his government confronts large, continuing protests over a...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban government decreed Saturday that Afghan women must cover themselves from head to toe, expanding a series of onerous restrictions on women that dictate nearly every...

In Mexico, the excess death toll during the first two years of the pandemic was twice as high as the government’s official tally of COVID-19 deaths. In Egypt, excess deaths were roughly 12 times...

At the peak of the buyout boom in 2007, private equity firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought Texas energy giant TXU for $45 billion. It was — and remains — the largest deal of its kind in...

Q: I know all about the dangers of driving while drunk. But is driving while high on marijuana as dangerous? A: Any form of driving while intoxicated is obviously a bad idea, but smoking a joint or...

Q: Why do carbs and sugar give me headaches? It’s common for people to notice a headache coming on after eating certain foods, and foods high in sugar or refined carbohydrates, like chocolate...

A court sentenced Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to five years in prison Wednesday after finding her guilty of corruption for accepting about $1.3 million in gold bars and cash...

Elon Musk struck an agreement Monday to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion, setting up the biggest deal to take a company private in at least two decades. Scrutiny is likely to be intense. Twitter...

Elon Musk can at times be inscrutable, and his politics are elusive, which has made it somewhat difficult to determine exactly what the billionaire would do if he successfully acquired Twitter. But...

The most avidly followed sports event on Earth, the FIFA World Cup, returns this fall — another chance to find out if what has often been said about soccer is true: That 22 men chase a ball for 90...

About 15,000 Russian military personnel have been killed since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the British defense secretary, Ben Wallace, told the House of Commons on Monday. The...

HANNOVER, Germany — On the evening of Dec. 9, 2005, 17 days after Gerhard Schröder left office as chancellor of Germany, he got a call on his cellphone. It was his friend President Vladimir Putin...